Art Quotes

There is no surer way of evading the world than by Art; and no surer way of uniting with it than by Art.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

The world is a kaleidoscope. Man imposes logic into it. The supreme art is the art of chance.[El mundo es un caleidoscopio. La lógica la pone el hombre. El supremo arte es el del azar.]

The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.[Богатые люди имеют всегда около себя приживалов; науки и искусства тоже.]

The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.[Il pittore che ritrae per pratica e givditio d’ochio, sanza ragione è come lo spechio, che in se imita tutte le a se cotraposte cose sanza cognitione d’esse.]

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the tender, appealing vitality of the workman’s heart and head.

The man susceptible to art stands in the same relation to the reality of dreams as the philosopher to the reality of existence; he is a close and willing observer, for from these pictures he reads the meaning of life, and by these processes he trains himself for life.[Wie nun der Philosoph zur Wirklichkeit des Daseins, so verhält sich der künstlerisch erregbare Mensch zur Wirklichkeit des Traumes; er sieht genau und gern zu: denn aus diesen Bildern deutet er sich das Leben, an diesen Vorgängen übt er sich für das Leben.]